He said yesterday: "When Mountains, thirty miles from Sydney, will swim I realised that Jill had the makings of a long-distance 800 miles before May next year in training for her pro- swimmer I began training her by his methods." posed English Channel swim in 1953. Jill, who had

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SCOTLAND YARD last night sealed a luxury flat in London and began inquiries into the death of a pretty, blonde, party-loving woman of twenty-, eight, who was found in bed there with a towel over . her face earlier, : the day. The woman, Mrs. Joyce Jarratt, 28, the former wife of

THE housewife is to get only 21b. of extra sugar on each ration book for jam-making this year-11b. in May and the other in July. Announcing his decision in the Commons yesterday, Major Lloyd-George, Food Minister, said that the 10oz. sugar ration could only be maintained by redu

decided to make as much money as they can by employing " assistants," and deferring their own retirement. I have talked to one young doctor—now an assistant—who wanted to set up in practice on his own. The L.C.C. offered him a house on a housing estate near London. Fine ! But wh

dinner IN BRIEF - THE Duke of Edinburgh will sit down with six miners to a canteen dinner—cost is. 4d.—when he pays a one-day visit to Mosley Common Colliery, Lancs, on Thursday. TLle menu is: Roast meat, two veg., a sweet and cheese. The meal will be served on a Plain table in t

staring with a rapt and intense expression at the stone figure of Ariel over the 8.8.C.'s main door, it was this correspondent at his devotions. My supplications went like this : " Dear Ariel, stop 'em Guard the skies and sweep 'em away with alPtheir noisy nostrums, their baseme

bodies disgusts me. As for calling it student who os,ey sees much f muc . s h _b_e y auty gLollobriida—no. Lucia Bose—no. But Pearl beauty, Howell—yes. Pearl Howell is the daffodil picker many as th an ings ar _ t l h Mils ) S lvia Squares, Ferneydale-avenue, Buxton, Derbyshire.